Anthony Alfaro (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) The Potluck By Julia Polinsky on July 21, 2026 Trauma exists; never doubt it. Dealing with trauma impels a lot of art, and many artists weave their lives, and their wounds, into their work. Sometimes, that makes super theater; sometimes, it feels like that time and care could have been…
Jonathan Judge-Russo, Lauren Lolo Pritchard, and Stephen Michael Spencer (Photo: Jeremy Daniel) Music City: A New Musical (2026 remounting) By Julia Polinsky Bedlam’s Music Ciyt: A New Musical, a country-music jukebox musical featuring the songs of zillion-selling songwriter JT Harding, is as warm-hearted and feel-good as a Hallmark Christmas movie. Originally presented at the West…
Billy Porter and the Ensemble (Photo: Joan Marcus) La Cage aux Folles at Encores! By Julia Polinsky on June 27, 2026 Directed by Robert O’Hara, this all-Black revival of La Cage is an Encores! production, so you know the drill: a little under-rehearsed (and who can cavil at that with less than 2 weeks to…
Elliot Sagay, Ellen Nikbakht, Bailey Lee (Photo: Valerie Terranova) No Singing in the Navy By Jarrett Winters Morley on April 21, 2026 When I first heard about a show titled No Singing in the Navy, premiering at Playwrights Horizons, the same institution involved with works like Sunday In The Park With George, Floyd Collins, and William Finn’s Falsettos trilogy, I…
RJ Higton and the Company (Photo: Christopher Duggan) Gotta Dance! With American Dance Machine UPDATE: APRIL 2026 By Julia Polinsky on April 1, 2026 Need an anti-depressant? Take two seats at Gotta Dance! and you’ll feel better immediately. This greatest-hits compilation of superb, iconic dance numbers from Broadway and Hollywood musicals has just opened at…
The Ensemble (Photo: Marc J. Franklin) Night Side Songs By Jarrett Winters Morley on March 30, 2026 In 1956, Brooks Atkinson wrote, “Broadway is used to heart. It is not accustomed to evocations of the soul.” What is more soul-exposing than a piece that explores illness and death, in an intimate staging, where the audience…
Sierra Boggess, Adam Jacobs (Photo: Shawn Salley) Monte Cristo By Marc Miller on March 28, 2026 The ladies’ dresses are long and flouncy, the men’s vests bright and ornate, the cello and viola are sawing away in the pit, the lyricist is rhyming “reign” with “a-gain,” and the chorus is singing about injustice, class distinction,…
Grey Henson (Photo: Marc J Franklin) BIGFOOT! A New Musical By Matthew Rolandon March 2, 2026 Nestled between a chemical dump site and a looming nuclear power plant sits the small town of Muddirt, an offbeat enclave populated by a zany cast of misfits and one larger-than-life mythical creature. Bigfoot! A New Musical is now…
Michael Hunsaker, Tori Jade Lopez, Lauren Nicole Sherwood, Klea Blackhurst, JP Sarro, Gina Lamparella (Photo: Donald Kennedy) Just Desserts: A Musical Bake-Off By Fern Siegel on February 15, 2026 The premise of the off-Broadway musical Just Desserts: A Musical Bake-Off is simple: somewhere in the Midwest, there is a bake-off at the Jefferson County fair….
The Ensemble (Photo: Joan Marcus) The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee By Matthew Roland on February 13, 2026 Remember back in school when you were told to stand up in front of your peers and read from a textbook? Now imagine raising the stakes: not simply reading what’s in front of you, but spelling…